IBM PowerPC 4XX System-on-a-chip

May 5, 2004: Applied Micro Circuit Corporation (AMCC) has acquired certain assets and licensed certain IP associated with the IBM PowerPC 4XX system-on-a-chip product line. AMCC will market, supply, and support this product line. IBM will continue to provide legacy documentation at this site until August 5, 2004 on behalf of AMCC. Please visit the AMCC website to access product information after August 5, 2004. Additional information and documentation can be found at www.amcc.com.

IBM Picoprocessor PowerNP

January 7, 2004: Hifn, Inc.announced a definitive agreement with IBM to acquire selected assets and license other intellectual property from IBM associated with the IBM Picoprocessor PowerNP product line. Please visit the Hifn website to access product information after March 31, 2004. Additional information and documentation can be found at www.hifn.com .

STB0210x Digital Set-Top Box Integrated Controllers

October 9, 2003: End of Life for STB0210x Digital Set-Top Box Integrated Controllers was announced on October 9, 2003. Last time buy orders due to IBM—06/04 Last module shipment by IBM—12/04 Please contact your sales rep or the Geographical Tactical Marketing team for more information and details regarding the end of life announcement. .

IBM Switch Fabric

September 29, 2003: Applied Micro Circuit Corporation (AMCC) has acquired certain assets and licensed certain IP associated with the IBM Switch Fabric IC chipset product line. Effective today AMCC will market, supply, and support this product line. IBM will continue to provide legacy documentation at this site until December 31, 2003 on behalf of AMCC. Please visit the AMCC website to access product information after January 1, 2004. Additional information and documentation can be found at www.amcc.com .

Surface Laminar Circuit™

July 1, 2003: Kyocera Corporation acquires IBM Yasu SLC™ manufacturing operations. As a result of this acquisition, Kyocera will provide Surface Laminar Circuit (SLC) substrates for IBM as module offerings. SLC will no longer be sold by IBM as a stand-alone packaging product and we will, therefore, no longer supply, support, market, or provide technical documentation for this product. Please visit Kyocera at their website at http://global.kyocera.com to access product information after September 1, 2003.

PCI-X Bridge

March 31, 2003: Tundra Semiconductor Corporation acquires the IBM 133 PCI-X Bridge Chip As a result of this acquisition, IBM will continue to support Tundra through foundry services, but will no longer supply, support, or market this product. IBM will continue to provide legacy documentation at this site until May 1, 2003. Please visit the Tundra Semiconductor Corporation website to access product information after May 1, 2003. The product information and documentation can be found at http://www.tundra.com/TSi310.

Fiber-Optic

January 2002: JDS Uniphase acquires the IBM Datacom transceiver product line. Due to this acquisition IBM no longer designs, manufactures, supports, or markets this product line. The expanded and improved product line and documentation can be found at JDS Uniphase's website.

IBM X86 Microprocessor

IBM discontinued sales of IBM X86 processors in December 1998 and no longer provides technical support or warranty service for these products. Contact your computer system or software supplier for assistance.

ALDC

End of Life for the IBM Microelectronics Adaptive Lossless Data Compression (ALDC) family of data compression was announced in June of 2000. Last Time Buy Orders - 06/2000 Last Module Ship - 12/2000 Please contact your IBM sales representative or the Geographical Tactical Marketing team for more information and details regarding the end of life announcement.

CMOS 5S

End of Life for CMOS 5S was announced on September 30, 2001. Statement of final customer EOL requirements (part number, quantity)—03/31/02 Last time buy orders due to IBM—09/30/02 Last module shipment by IBM—09/30/03 Please contact your sales rep or the Geographical Tactical Marketing team for more information and details regarding the end of life announcement.

IEEE 1394

End of Life for 1394 was announced on September 17, 1999. Please contact your sales rep or the Geographical Tactical Marketing team for more information and details regarding the end of life announcement.

Palette DAC

End of Life for the IBM Microelectronics Palette DAC has been announced. All Palette DAC module part numbers were affected by the CMOS 4 End of Life. All RGB/Palette DAC part numbers were affected by the C4FP End of Life announcement of 12/1998. Last Time Buy Orders - 06/2000 Last Module Ship - 12/2000 Please contact your IBM sales representative or the Geographical Tactical Marketing team for more information and details regarding the end of life announcement.